Boating

Big Pine Key RV Park

95 RV Sites, 1 Onsite RV/Trailer

Big Pine Key RV Park in Florida offers 96 full-hookup back-in RV sites at Mile Marker 33 in the lower Keys, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 45 feet. Oceanfront and canal back-in categories join 30-amp and 50-amp tiers, with boat docks, a boat ramp, water park, and clubhouse. Ninety-six back-in sites span 30-amp, 50-amp, canal, and oceanfront categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV, sized to 45 feet. The oceanfront and canal categories are the reason to book here — direct water at the site in a place where waterfront is scarce and expensive. Premier rentals round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, and boat storage handle the practical side. One important policy: pets are not allowed in the rustic sites, which sit near the protected Key deer — this protects the animals and keeps guests on the right side of Florida wildlife law. A water park and outdoor pool anchor the property, with boat docks, a boat ramp, boat rentals, and a beach opening the water for boating, water sports, swimming, and fishing. A clubhouse, recreation center, craft room, shuffleboard, billiards, horseshoes, walking trails, a playground, and community fire pit fill the rest. Big Pine Key sits past the bustle of Key West and Marathon, where the pace slows and the National Key Deer Refuge protects the tiny deer found nowhere else on earth. Winter is decisively the season in the Keys. Book well ahead for January through April.

from $45/night

Leo's Campground

47 RV Sites

Key West, the southernmost city in the continental United States, is a four-mile island at the end of the 113-mile Overseas Highway where the character of the Florida Keys reaches its most concentrated and most celebrated expression — a city of Victorian "conch houses," legendary sunset celebrations at Mallory Square, world-class snorkeling and diving on the coral reef system, and the particular subtropical atmosphere that has made Key West a destination of enduring fascination since the nineteenth century. Leo's Campground is a family-owned Key West property that gives RV travelers and vacation rental guests direct access to all of that without the driving logistics that make Key West stays complicated for guests parked further up the Keys. Full-hookup RV sites and vacation rental accommodations cover the primary accommodation options, with boat docks and a kayak launch providing direct water access from the property. A dog park, free Wi-Fi, and on-site laundry serve practical guest needs, and the central Key West location puts the city's primary attractions within walking distance or easy bike ride distance — rental bikes available near camp make the island's human-scaled geography ideal for independent exploration at a pace that captures more than any guided tour manages. The family-owned character of the campground provides a personal attention to guests that contrasts with the transactional experience of Key West's larger hotel properties. Pets are welcome throughout. The turquoise water surrounding Key West's island environment is one of the defining visual and experiential characteristics of any stay — the transition from the dark-green mangrove channels to the open aquamarine of the Gulf and Atlantic flats surrounding the island happens within minutes by kayak, and the marine life density in the shallow backcountry flats supports snorkeling, kayaking, and light-tackle fishing experiences of extraordinary quality without requiring a long boat ride to reach productive water. Mallory Square's nightly sunset celebration — an outdoor festival of street performers, artists, and spectators that has gathered every evening for decades — is one of Key West's most uniquely local traditions and requires no ticket or reservation, just a walk to the waterfront before the sun drops below the Gulf horizon. Duval Street's live music bars, fresh seafood restaurants, and the particular energy of Key West's nightlife extend the evening options indefinitely. The Key West Lighthouse & Keeper's Quarters provides historical context for the island's maritime significance, and the Southernmost Point Buoy at the end of South Street is the obligatory photograph of any Key West visit. The Dry Tortugas, 70 miles west by seaplane or ferry, add Fort Jefferson National Park and a genuinely wild coral reef experience to the broader day-trip roster. Leo's Campground operates year-round in Key West's subtropical climate, with the winter season from December through April representing peak tourism and the most competitive accommodation window on the island. Reserve well ahead for any stay — Key West's limited land area means accommodation options of all types are finite and in consistent demand, and Leo's position as one of the few campgrounds on the island makes advance booking essential regardless of season.

from $75/night

Sun Outdoors Marathon

59 RV Sites, 12 Cottages, 6 Motel Rooms, 3 Condos

At the heart of the Florida Keys on Marathon's Gulf side, Sun Outdoors Marathon offers one of the most scenically positioned RV campgrounds in the entire Keys chain—a property with 300 feet of private Gulf of Mexico waterfront, 16 deep-water boat slips, a full marina, and turquoise water panoramas from a Tiki Hut pavilion that make a morning coffee here feel like a genuine privilege rather than simply the first item on a camping checklist. The campground's full-hookup sites, marina infrastructure, and fish cleaning station serve the serious saltwater fishing community that finds Marathon's position at the heart of the Keys ideal for pursuing bonefish, tarpon, permit, and offshore species year-round—while the pool, Gulf views, and planned activities serve the resort visitor who wants the Keys atmosphere without a boat in every equation. Full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp electric service, private picnic tables, water, sewer, cable television, and high-speed Wi-Fi are positioned on pea rock pads accommodating rigs up to 34 feet with slide-outs. The marina's 16 deep-water boat slips, boat ramp, and fish cleaning station serve the boating and fishing contingent with infrastructure that rivals dedicated marine facilities in the Keys. A swimming pool, waterfront Tiki Hut pavilion with Gulf views, recreation hall, laundry, and dog park complete the land-side amenity lineup, and motel rooms and cottage rentals provide roofed accommodation alternatives for guests who want the Gulf waterfront experience without arriving in an RV. Marathon's position at Mile Marker 50—literally the midpoint of the Florida Keys—makes it one of the most productive and accessible fishing bases in the island chain. The famous backcountry flats of Florida Bay stretch north of Marathon's Gulf shore and are widely regarded as one of the world's premier destinations for bonefishing, permit fishing, and tarpon sight-casting on tropical flats where visibility and fish abundance combine to create the fly-fishing experience that defines the Keys' international reputation. Offshore, the reef and Gulf Stream waters within a short run of Marathon's marina produce mahi-mahi, sailfish, blackfin tuna, and the wahoo runs that peak in winter months when current concentrations draw baitfish and predators together. Sombrero Beach, Marathon's beloved public beach and one of the few sandy beaches in the Middle Keys, provides swimming, picnicking, and family-friendly shoreline access that the Keys' rocky limestone substrate limits in most locations. The Seven Mile Bridge, extending from Marathon's western end to Little Duck Key, is one of the engineering achievements of the Overseas Highway—a crossing whose predecessor was built by Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway in the early 1900s. Bahia Honda State Park, about 15 miles southwest on the Lower Keys, provides the Keys' most beautiful sandy beach and near-shore snorkeling on a tropical reef accessible by kayak from the park's boat launch. The Florida Keys' subtropical climate makes Marathon a functional year-round camping destination, with winter providing the most comfortable conditions—dry, clear skies, daytime temperatures in the 70s, and the calmer Gulf waters that make boating and flats fishing most productive from December through April. Summer's tarpon migration brings its own excitement to the bridge lights and Keys flats, along with increased humidity and the threat of tropical weather from June through November that warrants monitoring National Hurricane Center advisories before late-season stays. Reserve marina slips and boat-accessible sites well in advance for the winter fishing season, when demand from anglers targeting the Keys' flats species fills the campground months ahead.

from $55/night

Sun Outdoors Islamorada

73 RV Sites, 3 Houses

Sun Outdoors Islamorada in Florida offers 73 full-hookup RV sites and three houses across 12 acres at Mile Marker 85 in the Keys, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 59 feet, open all year. Elite, premium, deluxe, waterview, and standard categories join back-in and pull-through tiers, with a marina, outdoor pool, fitness center, and beach. Seventy-three sites span standard back-in, standard pull-thru, deluxe back-in, deluxe pull-thru, premium back-in, elite back-in, and waterview categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 59 feet, with picnic tables. Seven tiers give real budget range on some of the most expensive real estate in Florida, and the waterview category is worth requesting. Three houses round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. A marina and beach open the water for boating, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, water sports, swimming, and fishing, with an outdoor pool, fitness center, clubhouse, pavilion, billiards, and a community fire pit filling the rest. Planned activities run through the season. Islamorada is the Village of Islands, where the Atlantic and Florida Bay converge around a fishing town that Zane Grey's early-20th-century expeditions and the backcountry flats' bonefish and permit made the Fishing Capital of the World. Theatre of the Sea, the History of Diving Museum, and Robbie's are all close. Winter is decisively the season in the Keys. January through April fills completely. Book as far ahead as you can.

from $108/night

Sun Outdoors Key Largo

18 RV Sites, 8 Motel Rooms, 13 Park Models

At Mile Marker 97.5 in Key Largo, Florida—at the northern gateway of the Florida Keys Overseas Highway where the first true island experience of the island chain begins and the coral reef ecosystem of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park puts the most accessible and most diverse underwater landscape in the continental United States literally beneath the surface just offshore—Sun Outdoors Key Largo offers 35 full hookup RV sites with cable TV and WiFi, a marina with boat docks and boat ramp, duplex and motel room accommodations, vacation cottages, bike rentals, and a beach in a year-round Keys resort that provides the full waterfront experience at the island chain's most accessible and most coral-reef-proximate point. For RV travelers who want a genuine Florida Keys stay with marina infrastructure and walkable coral reef access, Key Largo's Mile Marker 97.5 is the starting point. Full hookup sites with electric, water, and sewer alongside cable TV and WiFi accommodate 35 rigs in a resort that extends the accommodation options into duplex and motel-style rooms and vacation cottages for traveling companions who prefer a structure to an RV. A marina with boat docks and a boat ramp serves the boating community that comes to Key Largo for the backcountry fishing, reef diving, and island-hopping that the marina infrastructure enables, and bike rentals provide the non-motorized alternative for guests who want to explore Key Largo's Overseas Highway corridor under their own power. A beach, pavilion, community fire pit, laundry, and showers complete the resort infrastructure in a pet-friendly, year-round property. Key Largo occupies the northernmost 30 miles of the Florida Keys at the point where Monroe County's island arc begins its southwesterly arc from the Florida Mainland toward Key West—the first in the chain of 1,700 islands, islets, and mangrove hammocks that stretch 120 miles across the Gulf and Atlantic. The surrounding coral reef ecosystem, part of the Florida Reef Tract—the only living barrier coral reef in the continental United States and the third largest barrier reef in the world—begins just offshore and creates the snorkeling and scuba diving conditions that make Key Largo the undisputed diving capital of the continental United States. John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, adjacent to the Mile Marker 97.5 position, was established in 1963 as the first underwater state park in the United States—a 70-square-mile park that extends three miles offshore to protect the living coral reef, the mangrove forests, and the seagrass beds that form the ecological foundation of the Keys ecosystem. The park's glass-bottom boat tours, snorkeling excursions, and scuba diving trips from the park's concession provide the reef access for guests who don't have their own dive equipment, and the Christ of the Abyss bronze statue in 25 feet of water at Key Largo Dry Rocks is one of the most photographed underwater attractions in the world. Sun Outdoors Key Largo operates year-round in the Florida Keys' subtropical maritime climate, where the consistent 75-85°F year-round temperature range and the minimal seasonal variation make every month a viable Keys vacation month. Winter is the drier, slightly cooler season and the peak period for both the snowbird community and the reef diving conditions when water visibility reaches maximum clarity. Summer brings the warm water and the thunderstorm season, but the Keys remain accessible and the reef beautiful. Reserve your site, cottage, or motel room at Sun Outdoors Key Largo and let the coral reef at America's doorstep deliver the underwater world that makes the Florida Keys genuinely unlike anywhere else in the country.

from $66/night

Chokoloskee RV Park

64 RV Sites, 10 Cabins

On the isolated shell mound island of Chokoloskee—a prehistoric Calusa shell midden that rises above the surrounding Everglades estuary in Collier County at the southwestern edge of Florida—Chokoloskee RV Park sits at the gateway to one of the most biologically extraordinary landscapes in North America. Three miles south of Everglades City on Chokoloskee Bay, the park provides 40-plus full hookup sites, kayak and boat rentals, a heated pool, a private beach, a renovated marina with boat launch, and the immediate proximity to Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades National Park backcountry that makes this tiny island one of the premier paddling and fishing destinations in the entire country. Full hookup sites accommodate 30 and 50-amp rigs with water, sewer, cable TV, and WiFi, and a fish cleaning station serves the serious fishing culture that defines Chokoloskee's guest demographic. The renovated marina, boat launch, and kayak and boat rental operation make the surrounding waters immediately accessible, and the heated pool and private beach provide rest and relaxation on days when the fishing and paddling are done. A general store, laundry, and playground round out the amenity set for families and extended-stay guests who want everything within walking distance. Travel trailer and cottage rentals are available for travelers seeking additional accommodation options on the island. Chokoloskee Island itself is a marvel—a 150-acre island elevated 8 feet above sea level by more than 3,000 years of Calusa shell midden accumulation, the archaeological remnant of a sophisticated culture that occupied this coastline for millennia before European contact. The island connects to the mainland by a causeway across Chokoloskee Bay, where the mangrove-lined waterways begin their intricate transition into the Ten Thousand Islands archipelago to the west—one of the largest mangrove estuaries in the Western Hemisphere. The bay is a nursery for snook, redfish, sea trout, and tarpon, and the backwater fishing here is widely regarded as the finest inshore fishing in Florida. Ten Thousand Islands, accessible directly from Chokoloskee's marina, encompasses 195 miles of paddling routes through mangrove-lined channels, open bays, and shell beach islands that provide camping opportunities along the Wilderness Waterway—a 99-mile paddling route through Everglades National Park's Gulf Coast section. Manatees drift through the channels, roseate spoonbills glow pink in the mangrove canopy, osprey and bald eagles claim the highest perches, and the alligators and American crocodiles of the brackish transition zone make for wildlife encounters unavailable in virtually any other environment. Everglades City, three miles north, offers air boat tours, ranger station programming, and the Rod and Gun Club's history as a sportsman's retreat since the 1920s. Chokoloskee's winter season—November through April—delivers Florida's finest weather alongside the peak fishing and paddling conditions that draw serious outdoors people from around the country. Tarpon season peaks from April through June as the giant fish migrate through the backcountry channels. Summer brings heat, humidity, and afternoon thunderstorms that are part of the Everglades ecosystem's annual rhythm. Reservations are essential for winter stays; the island is small and the park fills with regulars who return year after year to the same quiet outpost at the edge of the American wilderness. Book your site at Chokoloskee RV Park and discover why this tiny island at the end of the road is one of Florida's great outdoor secrets.

from $40/night

Timberline Glamping at Naples

Timberline Glamping at Naples in Collier County, Florida, delivers safari-style tent accommodations with air conditioning, heating, comfortable beds, and a coffee maker in the natural setting southwest of Naples — a glamping property that gives guests the outdoor camping connection with the southwest Florida landscape without the infrastructure gap between deluxe hotel accommodation and primitive camping that the Naples area's visitor market has consistently shown it is not interested in bridging on its own. The safari tent format, combining canvas tent enclosure with genuine modern comfort systems, creates the specific outdoor-indoor hybrid experience that the glamping category delivers at its most satisfying when the natural setting outside the tent justifies the accommodation format itself. Air-conditioned and heated safari-style tent accommodations give guests the complete modern comfort systems for year-round Florida outdoor stays — the air conditioning specifically addresses the reality that southwest Florida's summer humidity and heat make unaided outdoor sleeping uncomfortable in a way that reduces camping's appeal to the substantial non-camping fraction of the Naples visitor demographic. The coffee maker and comfortable bed infrastructure give the tents the turnkey morning experience that glamping guests specifically cite as the category's primary experiential advantage over conventional tent camping. The property's natural setting provides the outdoor connection — birds, warm nights, and southwest Florida's distinctive subtropical vegetation — that the indoor amenity infrastructure supports rather than replaces. Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, 30 miles northeast of Naples in Collier County, preserves the largest remaining old-growth bald cypress forest in North America — a 13,000-acre Audubon Society sanctuary whose 2.5-mile boardwalk trail through ancient cypress trees, some over 500 years old and 130 feet tall, with knees rising from the dark swamp water below, delivers a natural landscape experience of genuine profundity that has no equivalent elsewhere in the continental United States. The sanctuary's winter wading bird nesting colony, concentrating wood storks, great blue herons, anhingas, and roseate spoonbills in the cypress canopy, is one of the most spectacular wildlife aggregations in Florida. Big Cypress National Preserve, northeast of Naples, protects 720,000 acres of the South Florida freshwater watershed that sustains Everglades National Park's flow regime and the Florida panther population that the preserve's vast, undeveloped landscape supports in the largest concentration remaining in the eastern United States. Airboat and swamp buggy tours through the Big Cypress cypress strand and wet prairie habitat give visitors the immersive Southwest Florida wetland experience that the Everglades' more managed visitor infrastructure channels more rigidly. Timberline Glamping at Naples operates year-round in Collier County's subtropical climate, with the winter dry season from December through April representing the most comfortable outdoor recreation conditions and the primary snowbird season that sustains Southwest Florida's hospitality economy through the cooler months. The summer wet season from June through September delivers daily afternoon thunderstorms and higher temperatures but also the lushest tropical vegetation and the active birdlife that follows South Florida's summer monsoon rains through the freshwater wetland systems. Reserve safari tent accommodations ahead for the winter peak season from January through March, when Naples's accommodation market is at its most competitive and the outdoor glamping experience is most comfortable in the subtropical outdoors.

Sanctuary RV Resort

162 RV Sites

Sanctuary RV Resort in Bonita Springs, Florida, offers 162 RV sites with rigs accepted up to 115 feet — among the most generous length allowances in Southwest Florida. Premiere super pull-through, super pull-through, and super back-in categories join a pool, clubhouse, marina, and library between Naples and Fort Myers. One hundred sixty-two sites run in super back-in, super pull-through, and premiere super pull-through categories, sized to 115 feet. The super designation is not marketing here — 115 feet accommodates the longest coaches on the road with a tow and room to spare, which is genuinely rare this far south. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, RV storage, and WiFi handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors daily recreation, with a clubhouse, library, sports courts, pickleball, and a playground filling the grounds. A marina sits on the property, and a dog park serves pets. Live music runs through the season, and the surrounding preserve makes for productive birding. Pets are welcome. Bonita Springs sits in Lee County between Naples and Fort Myers, which puts guests within easy reach of some of the Gulf Coast's best beaches, most productive fishing, and most carefully preserved natural areas. This is an all-ages resort rather than 55-plus, which broadens who it suits. Winter is decisively the season in Southwest Florida, when snowbird demand fills the Gulf corridor from January through March. Book well ahead for those months, and expect considerably easier availability through the summer.

from $44/night

Sun Resorts & Residences Sanibel Gateway

449 RV Sites

Sanibel Gateway in Fort Myers, Florida, is a 55-plus community offering 449 full-hookup premium back-in RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 45 feet, open all year. A golf driving range, outdoor pool, hot tub, fitness center, tennis, and pickleball courts serve one of the largest RV communities in Lee County. Four hundred forty-nine sites are premium back-in throughout, carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV, sized to 45 feet. A single premium category means every resident gets the same spec — no budget tier, no guesswork. A laundry, restrooms, showers, RV storage, boat storage, personal mailboxes, and recycling handle the practical side. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor daily recreation, with a golf driving range, fitness center, library, pavilion, and sports courts besides. Tennis, pickleball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, billiards, volleyball, horseshoes, corn hole, biking, a lake, pond, and dog park fill the grounds, with fishing and swimming on site and boating nearby. Pets are welcome. Four hundred forty-nine sites is genuine scale, and the amenity list reflects it — this operates more like a residential resort community than a campground. Fort Myers bridges Lee County's inland suburbs with the barrier island beauty of Sanibel and Captiva just across the Caloosahatchee and Pine Island Sound, which puts world-class shelling beaches and Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge within a short drive. Winter is decisively the season in Southwest Florida's 55-plus communities. January through March fills with snowbirds. Book well ahead for those months, with far easier availability through the summer.

from $42/night

Meadowlark Shores RV Park

Meadowlark Shores RV Park in Moore Haven, Florida, offers full-hookup RV sites steps from Lake Okeechobee, with boat docks, a boat ramp, an outdoor pool, and a hot tub behind a gated entrance. A clubhouse, recreation center, and personal mailboxes serve both travelers and longer-stay residents on the Big Lake. Full-hookup RV sites carry water, sewer, and electric. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, firewood, personal mailboxes, and a pet washing station handle the practical side, with WiFi throughout and a gated entrance controlling access. The mailboxes and washing station point clearly at the extended-stay guests the park serves alongside travelers. The lake carries the recreation. Boat docks and a boat ramp give direct access for fishing, boating, canoeing, and kayaking, with an outdoor pool and hot tub as the managed alternative. A clubhouse, recreation center, game room, arcade, pond, walking trails, playground, dog park, pavilion, horseshoes, shuffleboard, biking, and picnicking fill the grounds, with strong birding along the shoreline. Pets are welcome. Moore Haven sits in Glades County on US-27 and SR-78 on Lake Okeechobee's northern shore — the largest freshwater lake in Florida and the second-largest natural freshwater lake in the contiguous United States. Glades County is among Florida's most rural and lightly developed, and the Okeechobee bass fishery is the main draw. LaBelle River Rentals and Gatorama are nearby on the Caloosahatchee. Winter and spring bass season drive the heaviest demand. Reserve ahead.

from $53/night

Fisheating Creek Outpost

44 RV Sites, 1 Cabin, 69 Tent Sites

In Palmdale, Florida—in Glades County on Fisheating Creek where the tributary that flows northwest into Lake Okeechobee through one of the last free-flowing undammed creek systems in South Florida sustains the bass, catfish, and panfish fishery, the sandhill crane and limpkin populations, and the cypress swamp and prairie ecosystem that the surrounding conservation lands protect in an area that Florida outdoor enthusiasts access specifically for the natural character that the coasts and the theme park corridor cannot provide—Fisheating Creek Outpost offers 48 full hookup RV sites on concrete pads with water, sewer, and electric, 68 tent sites many positioned directly on the creek or near the swim lake, a furnished cabin with private bedroom, kitchen, air conditioning, and bath, two bathhouses with hot showers, laundry, a well-stocked camp store, and a fleet of 80 canoes, kayaks, and stand-up paddleboards available for hourly rental, creating the most complete paddle outpost on one of South Florida's most ecologically significant waterways. The creek is the destination. The canoe fleet has 80. The 48 full hookup RV sites on concrete pads with water, sewer, and electric provide the infrastructure alongside the 68 tent sites—many positioned directly on Fisheating Creek or near the swim lake for the water's-edge experience that the non-hookup camper seeks in the creek bottom's cypress-and-oak setting. The furnished cabin's private bedroom, kitchen with stove and refrigerator, air conditioning, and bath provides the enclosed accommodation for the guest whose comfort requirements exceed the tent but whose gear doesn't include a motorized rig. Two bathhouses with hot showers, laundry, and the well-stocked camp store create the daily support infrastructure. The 80-canoe, kayak, and paddleboard fleet—available by the hour—eliminates the need to bring paddling equipment to one of Florida's most rewarding paddling waterways and creates the access point that the Fisheating Creek Water Management Area's multi-day paddle camping trips begin from. Fisheating Creek flows 70 miles from the prairies of Highlands County northwest to Lake Okeechobee's northwestern shore in Glades County, draining the last significant free-flowing undammed creek system entering Lake Okeechobee. The Fisheating Creek Water Management Area's 22,000-plus acres of upland pine, wet prairie, cypress swamp, and creek floodplain protect the wildlife corridor that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the South Florida Water Management District have preserved as the Okeechobee watershed's most ecologically intact tributary. Lake Okeechobee, 20 miles east, provides the 730-square-mile lake's largemouth bass fishing—the trophy-class bass fishery that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's management program sustains in the shallow, vegetation-rich lake creates the supplementary angling destination for the Fisheating Creek visitor whose creek fishing appetite extends beyond the outpost's immediate waterway. Highlands Hammock State Park, 40 miles north near Sebring, provides the ancient live oak hammock—one of the oldest and most pristine natural communities in Florida—and the Civilian Conservation Corps' 1930s-era infrastructure in one of Florida's original state parks. Sebring International Raceway's 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race and the Highlands Hammock's visitor center create the cultural and natural attractions accessible from the Glades County position. Fisheating Creek Outpost operates year-round in Glades County's subtropical climate, with the winter and spring months from November through May the most comfortable paddling and camping season and the summer wet season from June through September bringing the afternoon thunderstorms and the wading bird activity that the creek's flooded margins sustain at their most abundant. Reserve your RV pad, tent site, or cabin at Fisheating Creek Outpost and let the 80-paddle fleet, the free-flowing creek's bass and panfish fishery, and the Glades County natural landscape deliver the South Florida outdoors experience that the coasts cannot provide.

Cabana Bay RV Resort by Boca Grande

163 RV Sites

In Placida, Florida—on the Charlotte Harbor coast between Cape Haze and the Boca Grande Causeway, in the lower Charlotte County landscape where Pine Island Sound, Cape Haze, and the preserve lands surrounding Gasparilla Island create one of the most ecologically intact and least overdeveloped coastal environments on the Gulf Coast—Cabana Bay RV Resort by Boca Grande delivers 170 full hookup sites on paver pads alongside a resort-style pool, pickleball courts, fitness center, and private gated access to the Cape Haze Pioneer Trail. The lakefront setting on five acres of resort-maintained grounds, the fountain-lined lake, and the resort's Boca Grande proximity create a coastal Florida camping experience that the Charlotte Harbor's natural wealth and the historic fishing community of Boca Grande specifically amplify. All 170 sites provide full hookup service with 20, 30, and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer connections on paver pads—a site surface that keeps the Florida sand under control and provides the firm, clean pad surface that resort-quality campground positioning demands. A resort-style pool and fitness center serve the active adult and family recreation needs, and pickleball courts position the resort for the sport's dominance in the Florida winter snowbird demographic. A welcoming clubhouse, dog park, laundry facilities, WiFi, golf cart rentals, and food trucks round out the resort's social and practical infrastructure. Private gated access to the Cape Haze Pioneer Trail—a multi-use recreational trail through the Cape Haze peninsula's conservation lands—gives guests immediate off-road cycling and walking access that the surrounding preserve system makes one of the finest trail environments on the Gulf Coast. The five acres of lakefront grounds, the fountain-lined lake, and the resort's maintained natural areas provide the environmental quality that justifies the resort designation beyond the pool and pickleball courts. The Charlotte Harbor estuary's ecology—seagrass beds, mangrove shorelines, and the open-water habitat that supports the most diverse inshore fishery on the Gulf of Mexico—is immediately accessible from Placida's boat ramps and the fishing infrastructure that surrounds the resort's Charlotte Harbor position. Boca Grande—on Gasparilla Island across the causeway, the historic tarpon fishing capital of the world and the most architecturally preserved Old Florida resort town remaining on the Gulf Coast—is minutes from the resort by car or golf cart and provides the cultural experience that distinguishes a Charlotte Harbor visit from a standard Gulf beach trip. The tarpon season (May through August) brings sport fishing enthusiasts specifically for the 100-plus-pound silver kings that pass through Boca Grande Pass in concentrations that have defined the Florida sport fishing tradition since the Vanderbilt era. The island's restored historic downtown, Gasparilla Inn's century-old hospitality tradition, and the bike-accessible Gasparilla Island State Park beach provide the Boca Grande day-trip itinerary. Cabana Bay RV Resort by Boca Grande is open year-round in Charlotte County's warm-season climate, with peak demand from November through April during the snowbird season and again in May through August during tarpon season. The Cape Haze Pioneer Trail is most pleasant in the cooler months when cycling through the peninsula's preserve lands is comfortable in the morning. Reserve your paver-pad site early for the winter season and let the Charlotte Harbor Coast make the case for the Gulf Coast that exists south of the resort corridor and north of the Naples luxury market.

from $90/night